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  • The Washington Post’s latest story on how track circuit sensors may be failing across the entire Metrorail system has us all plenty freaked out. Read the whole thing, and we’ll be sure to have more on this tomorrow.
  • Over at Tapped, Alexandra Gutierrez makes the case for why the District — not the larger DC metro area — needs stimulus funds just as much, if not more so, than any other city in the country.
  • And don’t miss the Post’s exclusive interview with Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Harvard professor who is alleging racial profiling after being arrested while trying to force open the locked front door to his own home.
  • NORAD is going to be doing some more test flights over the District overnight tonight. Don’t be alarmed if you see a fighter jet or helicopters flying over the city.
  • Twenty-two D.C. area high school students have been quarantined in China, over concerns about swine flu.